Chapter 433: Chapter 431: Divine Armed Forces
"How did you use the lightning?"
After stopping their battle, Le Yuxin took out his newly revised Platinum Tower defense plan, and Yan Yi carefully reviewed it and suggested some modifications. The two quickly reached a consensus—such efficiency is typical of a martial artist.
Of course, the more important point was that Yan Yi realized she could not defeat Qin Lei Yin, so she chose not to continue the futile effort.
Despite Yan Yi’s earlier impressive moves that suppressed Qin Lei Yin, that was precisely the advantage of the demon hunting combat technique. If one fails to defeat the enemy after running out of moves, the chances of winning would plummet.
Unlike other combat techniques, although all require physical stamina, the demon hunting combat technique demands the most—especially within the ’Bear Sect,’ ’Griffin Sect,’ and ’Cat Sect,’ where the techniques allow the body to feel weightless, but at the cost of quick muscle fatigue and soreness.
This is the philosophy of demon hunting combat technique: to suppress the enemy and kill them as quickly as possible; if that fails and fatigue sets in, retreat immediately and restore stamina before returning.
Among the many combat techniques, demon hunting has the least concern for victory or defeat, with no ’entanglement’ in battle; winning is winning, losing is losing, and forcing something will never bring happiness. Yan Yi’s ability to train the demon hunting combat technique to such a level mirrors her principles—decisively ending things when needed, attacking when needed, and forgiving when she chooses.
Once Yan Yi gave up the idea of defeating Qin Lei Yin, she returned to the stance of a typical strong woman. Given the importance of possibly becoming the next principal, she cared deeply about the Platinum Tower’s defense, and Le Yuxin’s plan was exactly to her liking, so she naturally spent effort to help him.
Upon hearing Le Yuxin inquire about the lightning, Yan Yi hesitated for a moment, removed her wrist ring, bent down to take off her ankle ring, and retrieved a circular ring from her back connected to the wrist and ankle rings—only then did Le Yuxin notice that her rings had tiny chains embedded in her clothing, making them usually undetectable.
"This is my self-made divine weapon." Yan Yi said, "Named ’Maelstrom,’ which consists of an outer ring and inner ring, activated by spiritual power to generate lightning between them, without affecting the user."
Divine weaponry is a term that even Le Yuxin knows little about—because it’s expensive and rare.
Generally, the best weapons for a martial artist are divine weapons. However, divine weapons are extremely scarce, even the emperor struggles to make them despite utilizing the national resources—historically, there have been more than ten emperors who attempted to create divine weapons, but only those made by the Grand Ancestor, Taizong, and Lie Sect are left: Absolute Divine Weapon, Illusion Divine Weapon, and Extreme Divine Weapon.
The main distinction between divine weapons and ordinary items lies in two points: extremely difficult to destroy and permanent efficacy.
While difficult destruction is understandable, achieving permanent efficacy is incredibly challenging. Replicas made by many artisans usually lose their effect within a few years, or even months eventually turning into ordinary items, certainly unfit to be called ’divine weapons.’
After hundreds of years of trying, everyone had to admit: the materials required for divine weapons are essentially depleted, unless a super-large meteor reliably crashes to earth without causing an apocalypse, then there’s a basis for divine weapon creation.
Though divine weapons can’t be made, creating special armaments just below divine weapons, effective for a period and destructible, is possible. These special armaments are divine weaponry—armaments second only to divine weapons.
Being consumables, divine weaponry are not only overpriced but nearly impossible to mass-produce—any crafting involving fantasy elements and consuming luminescent stones inevitably requires the artisan to imbue their own spirit into it, molding it with fantasy.
Yet, even with identical materials and methods, the same artisan might fail to reproduce divine weaponry, most crafted pieces are trash—for example, attempting to create a blazing fire sword might result in merely a heating rod, a common occurrence.
An artisan’s spiritual power has too much impact on the crafting result.
Once failed, re-forging is necessary, though the process inherently incurs losses, raising crafting costs over time. Additionally, artisans capable of crafting divine weaponry are extremely rare, once requiring talent, now an educated background—having been educated, why would one still forge?
Adding up various factors, the quantity of divine weaponry might not even surpass divine weapons. After all, divine weapons are constant, rarely decreasing, while divine weaponry, if left unmade, would eventually deteriorate completely.
Qin Lei Yin and Zhengwei previously considered purchasing divine weaponry to boost their power, but it’s a market without supply, hence they could only shelve the idea.
Le Yuxin was seeing divine weaponry for the first time and was deeply tempted. Although Maelstrom had no effect on him earlier, it doesn’t mean it’s ineffective against others—Le Yuxin possesses Ice Blood Physique, and mere lightning strikes barely faze him, but it’s a different story for others!
His neck still bears the scorch marks from the electrical arcs!
If it were someone else, they might have been shocked beyond recovery!
His divine weapon ’Saint’s Relic’ rarely helps him in battle, after all, ’Saint’s Relic’ only has two morph forms: Soul Purification Devil Sword and Veil of Strife. The former is irrelevant, as Le Yuxin doesn’t use swords; the latter is decent, but Le Yuxin isn’t a Hidden Sword Assassin, making it far less advantageous in dark environments and mainly useful for retreats.
"Can you—"
"You can’t."
Yan Yi swiftly took Maelstrom back: "Maelstrom is my only divine weaponry, showing it to you was already my greatest concession, don’t entertain any unrealistic thoughts."
"Alright." Le Yuxin conceded, asking: "So, Teacher Yan, now that you’re calm, can you explain why you attacked me?"
Yan Yi sneered, "Do you really not know?"
Could she have found out I snuck into her research room?
Le Yuxin considered many thoughts but maintained a flawless expression: "I truly don’t know."
Yan Yi wanted to say more but suddenly seized by a notion—wait a minute, could he genuinely be unaware of the connection between me and my sister?
If my sister interacted with him normally, even deliberately concealing my relationship, then Qin Lei Yin of course wouldn’t know.
My sister always worried about our relationship, frequently encouraging me to date, to consider other exceptional men... She often says that our relationship is actually detrimental to me, squandering my good years...
Could it be my sister, unable to change my mind, chose Qin Lei Yin as a scapegoat, using it as a reason to sever our relationship?
It must be, my sister loves me so much, she would never betray me!
Thinking so, Yan Yi’s eyes brimmed with tears, feeling overwhelmingly touched.
Sis, you’re really a clever little trickster to come up with such a scheme...
I actually doubted you, but luckily I just beat up Qin Le Yin a bit without making an irreversible mistake, everything can be fixed...
Le Yuxin was stunned sitting opposite Yan Yi, why did Yan Yi suddenly start crying?
Is this the campus goddess?
Suddenly attacking, suddenly crying, she’s more like the campus neurotic goddess, isn’t she?!
"You... all right?"
Le Yuxin walked to the window and glanced at the distance from the sixth floor to the ground, pondering whether to jump out and escape directly; fighting with the neurotic goddess was clearly not worthwhile.
"I’m fine, I just figured something out." Yan Yi smiled brightly.
Yan Yi also figured it out now, she didn’t need to fuss with Qin Le Yin, Qin Le Yin was just a tool for the sister, and certainly won’t gain the sister’s love!
She stood up and politely bowed to apologize, her voice gentle, her posture graceful: "I must have misunderstood something, I’m sorry Teacher Qin, I was quite rude just now."
Whether it was an illusion or not, Le Yuxin always felt that Yan Yi’s gaze towards him carried a hint of pity.
"No problem." Le Yuxin waved his hand, looking at the ceiling: "Speaking of which, we were just fighting with such fervor, surprisingly the principal didn’t intervene, how curious."
"This, you probably don’t know, the principal went out this afternoon to deal with my matter."
"Deal with your matter?"
Yan Yi nodded and explained: "These past few days, I had to go to Mu Mansion at night to tutor the Mu family’s young lady. The Mu family and our family are old friends, and since the Mu family’s young lady is taking the Imperial Academy entrance exam next year, I couldn’t refuse."
"Because I received the principal’s task last night, I discussed with the Mu family if we could postpone the tutoring sessions, but they were very adamant about me going in the evening. As they are old friends, it was hard for me to refuse them, so I talked to the principal, and he said he’d go resolve it in the afternoon."
Le Yuxin made an Oh sound and thought for a while, then asked: "What do you think the principal is going to do about it?"
"Just go and talk it over, right?" Yan Yi didn’t think too much: "The principal is personally going, surely the Mu family will give him some face?"
Le Yuxin, however, was undeterred, then asked: "Teacher Yan, do you know why we’re guarding the Platinum Tower? Obviously, with the principal around, it wouldn’t be up to me to defend the Platinum Tower."
Le Yuxin’s words made Yan Yi come to realization: "Right, even if the principal needs to be stationed at the Imperial Court at night, but if there’s trouble at the Platinum Tower, he could still make it back in time!"
Le Yuxin said: "Because, on the night when thieves attack the Platinum Tower, someone will also ambush the returning principal."
Yan Yi was stunned, then quickly changed her expression, and subconsciously spoke her mind:
"The Mu family is over!"
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At the entrance of the Senluo Chamber of Commerce, the napping manager suddenly heard someone knock on the counter, rubbed his eyes, and saw an old man dressed in extremely flamboyant red clothes standing in front of him. Although his nap was interrupted, the manager was very courteous: "This is the Senluo Chamber of Commerce, is there anything I can help you with?"
"I want to see Mu Po Luo." The red-clothed elder replied.
The manager yawned and took out a registration form, saying: "Please fill out the visitor registration form, do you have an appointment?"
"No appointment, but Mu Po Luo will see me."
The manager suddenly realized that the other party was calling the chairman by name, coupled with his luxurious and neat appearance, he must be an elder with high status, so his attitude became more humble: "Do you know the chairman personally?"
The red-clothed elder wrote his name and purpose of visit, nodding: "Met Mu boy a few times."
Mu boy? Must be very high status, huh!
The manager hurriedly said: "The chairman is inside now, shall I announce your visit, or would you like to go in yourself?"
"I’ll go in myself, lest I cause a fuss, just here to ask a few questions and leave."
"Good, good, take care, sir."
Watching the red-clothed elder walk into the back hall, the manager thought this big figure was not bad, quite polite to him, probably a kind elder.
He glanced at the visitor registration form, and when he saw the line ’Purpose of Visit’, he was stunned.
"Visitor Name: Cha Huan"
"Purpose of Visit: Assassination"